While Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was notable for the contribution, by way of hours of interviews, of the man himself, it could hardly be described as revelatory. The darker side of the way Apple was run by Jobs, for example, was glossed over. By contrast, Adam Lashinsky’s Inside Apple aims to get under the skin of …

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Inside Apple R&D

Dozens of computers just running a browser while staff scour the internet for interesting rumours about tech that competitors are currently developing which is then handed to a patent lawer to claim it as Apples

Re: Inside Apple R&D

Re: Inside Apple R&D

>>>>Dozens of computers just running a browser while staff scour the internet for interesting rumours about tech that competitors are currently developing which is then handed to a patent lawer to claim it as Apples>>>>>>

I think you've got that wrong. Close, but not quite there. From the development of the iPad, we can see that what actually happens is staff scour the internet for rumours about what Apple are doing, and then produce that...

It's the reason they're so secretive about future developments They've crowdsourced their R&D, and don't want to bias the results.

Climate of Fear and Impulsiveness?

Spot on.

The missus works there: it's evil.

The good news is that, if you judge the top management by their deeds rather than their words, it's headed straight for the crapper: they had to bribe them over a billion dollars to stay for the 2 years following Job's death. Tim Cook had to be paid $300 million to stay.